What if your healing, wholeness, and growth are buried just beneath the surface—waiting for you to DIG? DIG: Develop in Grace is a soulful, reflective, and empowering collection of stories, affirmations, and insights that invite you to examine your roots, embrace your seasons, and grow through what you go through. Inspired by the rhythms of nature and grounded in both real-life wisdom and spiritual reflection, this book explores themes of trauma, resilience, joy, identity, motherhood, and grace. Debut author Candice Evans—a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, storyteller, and coach—draws from her professional and personal experiences to help readers uncover what’s been buried, broken, or forgotten, and transform it into fertile ground for healing. Whether you're in the middle of a life transition, searching for meaning, or learning to forgive yourself, this book offers the tools and tenderness to support your process. Through poetic storytelling, pause-worthy reflections, and uplifting affirmations, DIG: Develop in Grace is perfect for fans of Anita Phillips, Cole Arthur Riley, Sarah Jakes Roberts, Brené Brown, Tricia Hersey, and others exploring the intersection of faith, identity, mental health, and purpose. Whether you're into journaling and reflective reading, walking through this book with a friend, or using it in a book club or women's group, DIG: Develop In Grace offers space for personal reflection and group discussion. Each chapter includes thoughtful prompts, and the entire book is designed for readers who value intentional growth- especially those drawn to faith, healing, and personal transformation. This is your invitation to grow- beautifully, intentionally, and in grace. If you're ready to transform from the inside out, DIG is the book you've waiting for. Don't just read it- experience what it means to DIG! Candice Evans is a mom, wife, sister, daughter, friend-and all things human. She holds aBachelor's in Psychology from Saint Louis University and a Master of Science in Social Workfrom the University of Louisville. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Candice has supportedcountless individuals through life's transitions, creating space for thousands of stories filled withresilience, vulnerability, and grace. As founder of Develop in Grace, Candice helps individuals, families, groups, leaders, and organizations DIG through counseling, coaching, consultation, and creative expression. With a unique approach that blends humor with heartfelt insight and critical thinking, Candice draws on her diverse lived experiences, professional expertise and deep curiosity about the human experience and condition to inspire others to navigate life's challenges with resilience and purpose. Her work is both transformational and relative, helping people to DIG deep to cultivate growth and navigate the ever-changing garden of life.A proud "military brat" with travel tales from across the globe, Candice's early years sparked her love for diverse stories. An introverted processor and lifelong dreamer, she's often been told,"You need to write a book!" or "That should be a movie!" Her first published work, DIG: Develop in Grace, is the culmination of her experiences, passions, and commitment to helping others grow in grace. The book reflects her belief that even messy work-like digging into life's challenges-can lead to transformation and growth.Through her work and life, Candice has witnessed how deeply people can be burdened by theirpast, their imperfections, and circumstances both within and beyond their control. She offers asimple but profound call: more kindness, more compassion, more love, more laughter, morespace-and above all, more grace. She credits grace with saving her when guilt, shame, anger, anxiety, depression and fear felt overwhelming, teaching her to stop fighting and start DIGging. Her hope is that each reader will feel empowered to heal, grow, connect, and shine when they begin to DIG.